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		<title>On the priorities of journalists</title>
		<link>http://outofharmsway.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/on-the-priorities-of-journalists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This news story appeared in a number of newspapers this week, and while the content of the article makes it clear that these allegations are mere &#8220;rumour&#8221; at this point in time, it does raise questions about why journalists publish such stories&#8230;too often stories about PNG (and Melanesia more generally) reinforce stereotypes of madness, irrationality [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outofharmsway.wordpress.com&blog=256316&post=89&subd=outofharmsway&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Custom&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 04:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often find myself returning to this poem. It&#8217;s by Grace Mera Molisa (Black Stone, 1991). It&#8217;s probably controversial, and it obviously doesn&#8217;t present the complexity of custom, and it&#8217;s somewhat negative&#8230;but I still like it&#8230;I like it aesthetically and it&#8217;s a bit of a touch-stone for me to come back to when people are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outofharmsway.wordpress.com&blog=256316&post=88&subd=outofharmsway&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Slum tourism&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://outofharmsway.wordpress.com/2007/07/29/slum-tourism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 06:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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An article in The Age, &#8216;For Richer, For Poorer&#8216;, looks at the pros and cons of &#8217;slum tourism&#8217;.
I&#8217;d never heard of this term before reading the article, but it&#8217;s meaning is obvious.  The context: a three-hour tour of Rocinha favela, one of many shanty towns that cling to hillsides in Rio de Janeiro.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outofharmsway.wordpress.com&blog=256316&post=87&subd=outofharmsway&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Big Brother Is Watching?</title>
		<link>http://outofharmsway.wordpress.com/2007/07/27/big-brother-is-watching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[HIV/AIDs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow&#8230;
Update 1/08/07 &#8211; see updated comments below!!


Papua legislative council deliberating microchip regulation for people withHIV/AIDS 
Posted at 00:42 on 25 July, 2007 UTC
The Legislative Council of Indonesia’s Papua province is deliberating a regulation that would see microchips implanted in people living with HIV/AIDS so authorities could monitor their actions.
The Jakarta Post reports that according to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outofharmsway.wordpress.com&blog=256316&post=86&subd=outofharmsway&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging on &#8216;trouble in paradise&#8217; and &#8216;the arc of instability&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2007 03:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Coming Anarchy has been hosting a series on security issues in Oceania.  Bloggers include Opinio Juris, The Strategist (focusing on Melanesia) and Phil at Pacific Empire.  It&#8217;s good to see some more coverage of issues in the South Pacific (albeit negative ones) in cyberspace.
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		<title>First Interim Report of the April Riot Commission of Inquiry</title>
		<link>http://outofharmsway.wordpress.com/2007/07/19/first-interim-report-of-the-april-riot-commission-of-inquiry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>littlemsdisaster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Solomon Islands]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Commission of Inquiry into the 2006 April Civil Unrest in Honiara released its first interim report to the public this morning (see report here&#8230;I wish they&#8217;d PDF it or something&#8230;)
The Commission is chaired by Brian Brunton (a former PNG National Court judge). The other members of the Commission are Noel Levi (PNG), Waeta Ben [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outofharmsway.wordpress.com&blog=256316&post=84&subd=outofharmsway&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Voice of Youth: child wedding stopped by school students</title>
		<link>http://outofharmsway.wordpress.com/2007/07/18/the-voice-of-youth-child-wedding-stopped-by-school-students/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>littlemsdisaster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reminder that we should think beyond cliches &#8211; kids are the leaders of tomorrow, but they might also be the leaders of today; and while children are frequently described as amongst the most vulnerable, this is a reminder that we shouldn&#8217;t overlook their capacities and forms of resilience either. Child wedding &#8217;stopped by pupils&#8217; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outofharmsway.wordpress.com&blog=256316&post=83&subd=outofharmsway&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leading Pacific and Fiji-based Human Rights Activist banned from leaving Fiji</title>
		<link>http://outofharmsway.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/leading-pacific-and-fiji-based-human-rights-activist-banned-from-leaving-fiji/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>littlemsdisaster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiji]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the last few weeks, the Fiji military interim administration has banned several NGO workers and human rights activists from leaving Fiji in the course of their normal duties as representatives of their organisations and networks.
The latest victim of these travel bans is the Coordinator of the Fiji Women&#8217;s Crisis Centre (FWCC) Shamima Ali (press [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outofharmsway.wordpress.com&blog=256316&post=82&subd=outofharmsway&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the danger of song lyrics and election shenanigans</title>
		<link>http://outofharmsway.wordpress.com/2007/07/11/on-the-danger-of-song-lyrics-and-election-shenanigans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 05:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>littlemsdisaster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australian indigenous people]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NSW government has refused to scrap a controversial songbook with a song apologising to Aborigines, despite complaints it&#8217;s political propaganda. Hamish East, the father of a pupil at Kiama Public School, on the state&#8217;s south coast, approached the school principal after learning his son Brian was being taught the Sorry Song by West Australian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outofharmsway.wordpress.com&blog=256316&post=81&subd=outofharmsway&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Land, Violent Conflict and Development</title>
		<link>http://outofharmsway.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/land-violent-conflict-and-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>littlemsdisaster</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;m currently reading the OECD Development Centre&#8217;s report on Land, Violent Conflict and Development. The report reviews what has been learnt so far about the link between land and conflict (Sections II and III), and the scope for land policy to prevent violent conflict (Section IV). It also looks at what is not known, as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outofharmsway.wordpress.com&blog=256316&post=78&subd=outofharmsway&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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